It is time for straight talk about IVF: in-vitro fertilization kills more children than it saves. For every one child born through IVF, thousands are killed, frozen, and donated to research. This large-scale destruction of embryos makes IVF the greatest destroyer of newly-conceived life. Let us be clear: more babies are killed through IVF than through abortion.

But there is a more fundamental reason why we can’t be both pro-life and pro-IVF, and it is this: every child has the right to be conceived according to the natural order—through the sexual intercourse of a married man and woman, his own parents—and to develop in the womb of his own mother. To rob a child of this right is to contravene God’s law and to engender disorder in the child’s life before he is even born.

This message is part of The Trad Store’s pro-life series, which seeks to provide straight talk about what it really means to be pro-life.